A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

legendary Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.4 5.1 3 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1410 2 2 0 0 0
Number of authors11 7 2 2

Occurrences of legendary in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
legendary device? on page 17

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Christian versions o earlier legendary or mythological figures. Be a on page 30

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Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
's perjinkness wis saved by a legendary heroine cried Sclaff, wha on page 18
a skelp that wid hae made the legendary Sclaff prood. It wheeched owe on page 25

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Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Fast as they beltin dugs at legendary tracks. on page 92

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McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ay. His “Billisms” became legendary an’ through it aw,’ shown
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
battles wae the cushions wis legendary tae aw who witnessed thum. Ah
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ye um still blazin awa - the legendary coo shed on match days cana b (2020) twitter link
exploits in amateur fitbaw r legendary tae lol (2020) twitter link
culat @LeonRousseau10 aye the legendary jock stein - lookin doon on (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
gairden piz, broccoli an her legendary caauliflooer cheese. on page 28

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Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
e hid reets in Celtic lore, a legendary brave swordsman
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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
immense, and the drinking wis legendary. It wis aal the better becaus
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@peediepuss tweeted
@HI_Voices I doot that legendary baker is long gone. Yea, I st (2021) twitter link

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